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WhoSay, a startup that helps famous people post to social media and then curates their feeds for fans, is enlisting celebrities like Kevin Bacon, Eva Longoria and Mario Batali to serve as content marketers for a campaign with Canon.

Time Inc.'s PEOPLE, the world's most successful entertainment magazine brand reaching more than 53 million consumers weekly, and WhoSay, the first media company powered by celebrities themselves, announced a deal that will enhance the consumer experience, as well as create unique opportunities for brands. For the first time, celebrities can now immediately publish content directly on PEOPLE.com, along with their current social channels Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and China's WeChat and Tencent.

WhoSay, the first media company ever powered by celebrities themselves, announces the launch of its free iOS app and new desktop experience that provides fans with a highly-interactive, customizable digital magazine focused on celebrities in entertainment and sports.

Passion, participation, pictures and the popularity of celebrities like Betty White: those are among the key elements for creating a strong fan base on social platforms, according to a panel of digital media executives at Digital Hollywood's Media Summit in New York on Wednesday.

Celebrity-focused social media management platform WhoSay has raised $12 million in Series C financing led by Comcast Ventures, with participation from existing investors Greylock Partners, Amazon and High Peaks Ventures participating, as well as Chinese social media portal Tencent.

Viacom Media Networks will announce a deal Monday that allows the company to sell premium and custom social content, supporting linear, digital and mobile through an agreement with WhoSay, a platform aimed at supporting celebrities on social and publisher Web sites.

When Tom Hanks tweets or posts a photo on Facebook, chances are he's not using one of those social media management platforms built for the unwashed masses. Instead, celebs like Hanks, Steven Tyler and Sofia Vergara have been granted free access to the insider world of WhoSay…

After graduating from the famed Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve Ellis spent the next decade trying to make it in the music business, while tending bar on the side. According to Ellis, he was one of the lowest earning Wharton grads in the school's history.

WhoSay, Hollywood's newest social media hub, has teamed up with the Associated Press to give its members the option to provide their exclusive, personal photos and videos to AP Images for licensing to major media outlets worldwide.

When Rihanna, Keith Urban, Demi Lovato or "Glee" star Darren Criss tweets a photo, the link will likely point to a site called WhoSay, rather than to more widely-used photo sharing sites like TwitPic, Yfrog and Plixi.

The fingerprints of Creative Artists Agency (CAA) are all over WhoSay, a third-party app that is quietly becoming the go-to social media intermediary for A-list celebrities like Tom Hanks, Ellen DeGeneres, and Sarah Silverman. In large part because the LA startup pays users for transmitted photos, video, and other content.

Have you noticed that lately an increasing number of tweets from famous people are tagged "via WhoSay"? What is this WhoSay app — and if it's good enough for Steven Tyler and Tom Hanks and Eva Longoria, can you use it too?

When Tom Hanks posts a message to Twitter leading his 1.8 million followers to view a photo, perhaps of him in a candid moment on a movie set, they are sent to a special kind of site, one that gives him and other celebrities new control over their presence on social media.